Rulebook 43 is one of the main banking communication standards. It allows any company to receive daily statements of its accounts and, although they still have a long way to go, APIs can help implement it in any size of company.
Checkout financing is a digital alternative to credit cards that boasts advantages such as flexibility, creating one credit facility per customer and ensuring their future loyalty, thus improving the customer lifetime value.
APIs can be designed to facilitate customer onboarding, so that the necessary steps are simplified and registration for the bank-mediated service is maximized.
Alipay has become one of the most important and popular payment systems in the world. Owned by Ant Financial Services Group, a subsidiary of Alibaba, it currently has 1.3 billion users, becoming the most widely used platform globally to make cell phone payments.
Bank accounts are one of the most popular products taken out by Spanish citizens. Open banking is helping to further generalize this product among the population by offering digital accounts on third-party platforms. An incredibly attractive option with a number of advantages over traditional checking accounts.
Online businesses are offering more and more facilities for customers to pay for their products. It is becoming more common to integrate financing into retail applications, and it is an added value for companies that implement it within their platforms.
Startups and existing companies in the process of digitization need a new set of digital tools to help them transform their businesses and get more in tune with their customers' needs. If possible, they should develop frictionless systems that do not create barriers to entry for the business, as occurs with some banking solutions.
Taking a customer through the entire buying process until it is formalized is an arduous journey and one that faces the constant possibility of the customer leaving. However, there are ways to make the buying decision happen if you are given facilities such as agile, secure financing.
Open banking is driving the development of new apps that are integrated into company platforms, all in an effort to offer banking services to customers. Thanks to APIs, any banking operation, such as opening an account, can be done without the need to exit an application.
For many business sectors, the purchasing process is critical. APIs have helped improve the changes of many of these businesses, for example by offering instant financing to their customers.
